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TOKYO, August 20, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE:4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that the Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE) of China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has...
TOKYO, August 1, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that it booked ¥5.5 billion in the first quarter of fiscal year 2024 for change in the fair value of contingent...
TOKYO, July 26, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency...
TOKYO, July 26, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that on July 26, 2024, the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European...
TOKYO and Osaka, July 22, 2024 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) and Graduate School of Medicine / Faculty of Medicine, Osaka University (President: Shojiro Nishio “Osaka University”) today announced...
TOKYO, July 2, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that the Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE) of the China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has approved...
TOKYO, May 30, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has acknowledged the company’s resubmission of the Biologics License Application (BLA) for zolbetuximab...
TOKYO, May 21, 2024 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that it signed a memorandum of understanding with YASKAWA Electric Corporation (YASKAWA) to begin...
TOKYO, May 15, 2024– Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “the Company”) today announced that at the meeting of the Board of Directors held today, a resolution...
TOKYO, May 15, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “the Company”) announced that at the meeting of the Board of Directors...
held today, a resolution was passed to continue the Performance-linked Stock
Compensation Scheme for the Corporate Executives
TOKYO, May 13, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki
Okamura, “Astellas”) will share new research from across its innovative portfolio of approved and investigational cancer therapies during the 2024 American Society of Clinical Oncology...
TOKYO and SAN DIEGO, May 1, 2024 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) and Poseida Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: PSTX, President and CEO: Kristin Yarema, “Poseida”) today announced that Xyphos Biosciences, Inc., (a wholly...
TOKYO, April 25, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that at a meeting of its Board of Directors held today, it decided a change in Directors as stated below. This change is subject to approval at the 19th Term Annual Shareholders Meeting and a decision at the Board of Directors meeting...
TOKYO, April 25, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that at the meeting of the Board of Directors held today, it decided to change the definition of core basis in consolidated financial statements...
TOKYO, April 23, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced the European Commission (EC) has approved a label extension for XTANDITM (enzalutamide) as monotherapy or in combination with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for the treatment of...
TOKYO, April 22, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) confirms the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware has filed a Report and Recommendation that recommends denying Astellas’ motion for a preliminary injunction that sought to enjoin Lupin and Zydus from launching...
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TSE: 4502/NYSE: TAK, President and CEO; Christophe Weber, “Takeda”), Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”), and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (President & CEO: Akihiro Fukutome, “SMBC”) today announced...
TOKYO, April12, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that it expects to book approximately ¥70.0 billion in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2023 for an impairment loss for intangible assets and change in fair value of contingent consideration...
TOKYO, April 1, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced it received notification from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of acceptance of the company’s supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) to include positive...
TOKYO, March 28, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE:4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that on March 27, 2024 the Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE) of the China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has accepted the supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) for...
TOKYO, March 26, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that on March 26, 2024, Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) approved VYLOY™ (zolbetuximab), an anti-claudin 18.2 (CLDN18.2) monoclonal antibody for patients...
TOKYO, March 22, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) adopted a positive opinion recommending approval of XTANDITM (enzalutamide) as monotherapy...
TOKYO, March 4, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced dosing of the first patient in the STARLIGHT™ 2 Phase 3 pivotal study for fezolinetant, an investigational oral, nonhormonal compound being studied for the treatment of vasomotor symptoms...
TOKYO and BOSTON, Mass., February 15, 2024 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) and Kelonia Therapeutics (CEO, Founder: Kevin Friedman, Ph.D., “Kelonia”) today announced that Xyphos Biosciences, Inc., (a wholly...
TOKYO, Feb. 15, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE:4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has granted priority review for the company’s Supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for PADCEV™ (enfortumab vedotin...
TOKYO, February 7, 2024 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced the following changes to its management structure effective April 1, 2024...
TOKYO, January 31, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) announced today that it has entered into a strategic collaboration with Mass General Brigham (President and CEO: Anne Klibanski, MD) that is focused on translational medicine and early development to establish...
TOKYO – January 31, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE:4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced the submission of a Supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) on January 31 to Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) for PADCEV™ (enfortumab vedotin...
TOKYO and NEW YORK.– Jan. 26, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE:4503,President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) and Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) today announced that on Jan. 26, 2024 the European Medicines Agency (EMA) validated for review a Type II variation application for PADCEVTM (enfortumab vedotin)...
TOKYO, January 8, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a complete response letter on January 4, 2024, regarding the Biologics License Application (BLA) for zolbetuximab, an investigational agent...
Shanghai and Suzhou, TOKYO, December 28, 2023 - Elpiscience Biopharma, Ltd. (Chairman and CEO: Darren Ji, MD, Ph.D., “Elpiscience”) and Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced a research collaboration and license agreement for novel bispecific...
TOKYO, December 22, 2023 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Propella Therapeutics, Inc. (President and CEO: William Moore, “Propella”), and has become a wholly owned subsidiary of Astellas...
TOKYO, December 18, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) contributed to the development of a pediatric formulation to treat schistosomiasis as a member of the Pediatric Praziquantel Consortium (Consortium). The Consortium announced that the Committee...
TOKYO and NEW YORK – December 15, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE:4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, "Astellas") and Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) today announced that on December 15, 2023 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved PADCEV® (enfortumab vedotin-ejfv, an antibody-drug conjugate...
TOKYO, December 11, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced the European Commission (EC) on December 7 approved VEOZATM (fezolinetant) 45 mg once daily for the treatment of moderate to severe vasomotor symptoms (VMS) associated with menopause...
TOKYO, November 30, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) will present 24-week results from the Phase 3b DAYLIGHT clinical trial examining the efficacy and safety of fezolinetant, an investigational oral, nonhormonal compound being studied for the treatment of...
TOKYO and BOTHELL, Wash.– November 30, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE:4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) and Seagen Inc. (Nasdaq: SGEN) today announced that on November 30, 2023 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) accepted for priority review a supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) for PADCEV® (enfortumab vedotin-ejfv) with KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) as a combination therapy for the treatment...
TOKYO and IBARAKI, November 16, 2023 - University of Tsukuba (President: Kyosuke Nagata) and Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that they have signed a letter of confirmation regarding a strategic partnership to accelerate the digitalization of the drug...
TOKYO and NEW YORK, November 16, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) and Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) today announced that the companies received an approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of a supplemental New Drug Application for XTANDI®...
TOKYO and PITTSBORO, N.C., November 15, 2023 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) and Propella Therapeutics, Inc. (President and CEO: William Moore, “Propella”) today announced that Astellas, through a US subsidiary, and Propella have entered into a merger agreement...
TOKYO, November 15, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, "Astellas") today announced that The Lancet Neurology published a preliminary data analysis from the ASPIRO trial, evaluating the safety and efficacy of investigational AT132 (resamirigene bilparvovec), an adeno-associated...
TOKYO, November 4, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced results from the GATHER2 Phase 3 clinical trial, demonstrating IZERVAY™ (avacincaptad pegol intravitreal solution) continued to reduce the rate of geographic atrophy (GA) lesion growth for both...
TOKYO, October 25, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that the company has ranked first in the pharmaceuticals sector for the “2023 Award for Excellence in Corporate Disclosure” granted by the Securities Analysts Association of Japan (SAAJ) to...
TOKYO and BOTHELL, Wash. – October 22, 2023 -- Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE:4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) and Seagen Inc. (Nasdaq: SGEN) today announced results from the Phase 3 EV-302 clinical trial (also known as KEYNOTE-A39) for PADCEV® (enfortumab vedotin-ejfv) in combination...
TOKYO, Oct 15, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) will share new research results during the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress 2023 from October 20-24, showcasing the company’s focus on making a meaningful difference for people living with...
TOKYO, October 13, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on October 12 adopted a positive opinion relating to the use of VEOZA™ (fezolinetant) 45 mg...
TOKYO and Boston, MA October 10, 2023 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) and BioLabs Global, Inc. (Founder and CEO: Johannes Fruehauf, “BioLabs”) and Mitsui Fudosan (TSE: 8801, President and CEO: Takashi Ueda, “Mitsui Fudosan”) today announced that they have agreed...
TOKYO, September 28, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced the following personnel change in its top management effective from...
TOKYO and BOTHELL, Wash. – September 22, 2023 -- Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE:4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) and Seagen Inc. (Nasdaq: SGEN) today announced positive topline results from the Phase 3 EV-302 clinical trial (also known as...
TOKYO, September 19, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) will share new pooled efficacy and safety analyses from the pivotal Phase 3 SKYLIGHT™ studies for VEOZAH™ (fezolinetant), its first-in-class treatment for moderate to severe vasomotor...